Any tips or guidelines for creating ruby packages?

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Jul 28 01:06:45 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 21:00 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 7/27/05, Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Treat ruby like perl. If it adds functionality to ruby, then it needs to
> > be in the ruby namespace (ruby-foo), unless it has ruby in its name
> > already. If its an application written in ruby, then it doesn't need to
> > be in the namespace (foo).
> 
> For functionality enhancing packages.. do I use perl packaging like
> provides/requires syntax?

Well, I don't think rpm understands ruby(function), and there are no
pre-existant macros that I'm aware of. But otherwise, the perl model
should be sufficient.

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